Your immediate action is needed to help maintain the ban on the slaughter of
horses in the United States for human consumption abroad. With the help of
constituents like you, we convinced Congress to pass an amendment to the 2006
Agriculture Appropriations Bill that prohibits the use of your tax dollars from
being used to fund the federally mandated inspection of horses to be slaughtered
for human consumption, thereby protecting America’s horses from slaughter. The
measure was overwhelmingly approved in both the House of Representatives and the
Senate, and it was made official on Nov. 10, 2005 when the President signed the
2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill into law. However, the horse slaughter
industry refuses to give up—and as a result, the ban on horse slaughter is at
risk.

We recently learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a
petition surreptitiously submitted by the three foreign-owned horse
slaughterhouses in the United States which would enable the horse slaughter
industry to fund the inspections of horses for slaughter. If the petition is
granted, the horse industry’s crooked plot would allow the slaughter of tens of
thousands of horses for human consumption in 2006. This would circumvent
Congressional intent and fly in the face of the will of the American people.

WHAT YOU CAN DO::

Please contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns as
soon as possible and urge him to deny the petition for horse slaughter.

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